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They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
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They beat the heat, the pressure, and the sulfuric acid. What kept beating them was the lid over the lens. On October 22, 1975,...
The first machine ever to land on another planet was written off as dead. A torn parachute, a capsule toppled on its side with...
A titanium sphere built to land on Venus. A timer set wrong. Fifty-three years stranded in orbit around the wrong planet. When the toughest...
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long enough on the surface of Venus...
Behind its Cold War neutrality, Sweden was quietly preparing to go nuclear. Saab designed the Saab 36 "Vargen," a Mach 2, delta-wing bomber built...
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...
The M60A3 was the final evolution of America's M60 Patton — not a new tank, but a 1950s design upgraded so thoroughly that its...
A Navy F-4 Phantom crew was vectored to get a radar lock on the SR-71 Blackbird as it returned from a run near China....
Ten days before Desert Storm proved stealth worked, Dick Cheney canceled the Navy's stealth bomber. The bill: a carrier air wing with half its...
Summary and Key Points: More than 70 years after it sank, an American-built P-39 Airacobra was raised from an Arctic lake near Murmansk —...